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The NSA has finally decided to tell the world how the Internet surveillance program PRISM works, though it's been almost a year since its existence was revealed by one of the very first Edward Snowden leaks. On Tuesday, the spy agency released a repo...

The Guardian and the Washington Post have been awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their reporting on the NSA surveillance that the leaked documents from Edward Snowden brought to light. The award recognized Glenn Greenwald,...

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and other tech giants knew of the existence of the Internet surveillance program PRISM, they just didn't know it was called that, according to the NSA's top lawyer. Rajesh De, the spy agency's general counsel, said that the c...

Mark Zuckerberg has had it up to here with the United States government. The Facebook CEO took to his public profile page Thursday to express his frustrations about the way the U.S. government has handled Internet security in recent months. It's a se...

Pinterest on Friday unveiled the company's first transparency report, a document detailing the number of information requests Pinterest received in the past six months from both state and federal government agencies. Unlike other social networks like...

Katy Perry has found an era that suits her perfectly -- Victorian. The pop star went retro-chic in a visually stunning music video for power ballad "Unconditionally," the second single from her "Prism" album. There are gowns, snow, pearls, flower pet...

The Austrian law student who famously forced Facebook to release 1,222 pages of data kept on file about him remains a thorn in Facebook's side. Max Schrems' activist group, Europe v. Facebook, scored another small victory against the social networkin...

Security experts have long suspected that iMessage is not as safe and impenetrable as Apple claims. But a group of researchers says it has proof that Apple can indeed eavesdrop on your iMessages -- and the NSA can, too. The researchers, through a car...

In its 10-year history, Skype has become synonymous with video chatting. Now the company that once had a reputation for protecting its users' privacy has come under fire for its ties to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Luxembourg's data prote...

Facebook has been criticized by the media and users many times over the years for privacy concerns, but Mark Zuckerberg suggested that nothing has had as much of an impact on user trust as the uproar over reports of the NSA's access to Facebook data....

LinkedIn filed a legal challenge against the U.S. government in the Unites States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Tuesday in an effort to publicly share information regarding the government's requests for LinkedIn user data. LinkedIn r...

President Barack Obama said he thinks the oversight systems put in place to rein in NSA surveillance have worked, despite recent revelations. In an interview that aired Friday morning with CNN's Chris Cuomo, Obama defended the NSA and the controversi...

I can't shake the feeling that the National Security Agency thinks I'm a chump. I mean, I've written a lot about them. I've talked to their media contacts. I've been denied clarifications. I've pored over their press releases and page after page of N...

According to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, you should assume that no email is safe, especially if it's not encrypted. "I was surprised to realize that there were people in news organizations who didn’t recognize any unencrypted message sent over the Int...

The NSA has reiterated time and again that it doesn't spy on Americans and only targets foreign individuals, groups or terrorists. But an overlooked "minimization" rule seems to indicate this is not the case. According to a new report, the NSA routin...

Internet activists are once again rallying netizens to call their representatives. This time, they want Internet users to convince Congress to strip funding from the National Security Agency surveillance program that collects American's phone records...

A wide coalition of major tech companies -- including giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Microsoft -- along with advocy groups and trade associations -- has sent a letter to President Obama demanding more transparency from the United St...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. In the latest round of NSA and PRISM news, the A...

Microsoft indirectly hinted that Skype communications can be intercepted and handed over to the National Security Agency, according to two privacy and security researchers' interpretation of the latest statement by the company regarding NSA surveilla...

Yahoo won a small legal battle on Monday against the secretive surveillance court that oversees the far-reaching snooping programs revealed by Edward Snowden. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC or FISA Court) ruled that the United Stat...

Microsoft has been collaborating with the National Security Agency for its Internet surveillance program PRISM, according to a new report in The Guardian. Despite Microsoft's complaints that it can't be more transparent about government requests, the...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. It’s not just PRISM -- according to the French n...

French newspaper Le Monde accused France's government of illegally monitoring citizens' internal and external communications in a report Thursday. Le Monde immediately compared the French program to the recently revealed PRISM surveillance program in...

Edward Snowden is seeking asylum in 21 countries around the world. On Monday, WikiLeaks revealed that its legal advisor, Sarah Harrison, who is assisting Snowden in his search for a safe haven, has filed asylum requests in Russia, Ecuador and 19 othe...

Edward Snowden broke his days-long silence Monday. The NSA whistleblower, who has been stuck in Moscow's Sheremyetevo airport since June 23, threatened new disclosures in a letter sent to Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, partially published by Reut...

U.S. informant Edward Snowden received a mention in an unlike place: a German lingerie ad. The execution, above, is a pretty juvenile play on the word "uncover." If you're looking for clever commentary on PRISM or the NSA, you'll have to look elsewhe...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Monday is the last day for Google Reader. In a m...

What if you had control over millions of Internet users' personal data? Players of a new game called Data Dealer can experience that first-hand by running their own "Smoogle" and "Tracebook," while collecting and selling user data. Described on its o...

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, is calling the National Security Administration's Internet surviellance program "shocking" on a little-known social platform called State. PRISM is "an affront to right of privacy, and an overreach...

A secret National Security Administration program collecting bulk Internet metadata that began under President George W. Bush continued two years into President Barack Obama's tenure, according to a report. The news comes by way of The Guardian, whic...

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